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A girl and her dog. This girl got up and got dressed for school because she knows we are going to a pizza party today at the school today. The funny thing is her outfit screams school girl from the plaid skirt to the colorful color naming shirt she’s wearing. However, She doesn’t go this year… we will be doing homeschool again for her though! #honestandunbiasedblog #chicago #chicagohomeschool #mpchicago #memoriapress https://www.instagram.com/p/CTFEyQCLmBR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Review of Memoria Press Classical Composition Fable and Narrative

Review of Memoria Press Classical Composition Fable and Narrative #hsreviews #memoriapress #homeschool #writingcourse #writing @memoriapress @+Memoriapress1 @MemoriaPress @HomeschoolCrew @HomeschoolReviewCrew

My daughter, Mercedes, is a writer and was excited to enhance her writing skills and try out Classical Composition I: Fable Set and Classical Composition II: Narrative Set from Memoria Press for this product review.

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Taking a break from our @memoriapress classical curriculum today to see if we can use @thedragontree #Dreambook to focus on the why of learning, and also so that they are more involved in planning their future. With @justaddwater.me #Snackies of course, #parfait...going for one section a week so it's ready for January! #bigideasforlittlepeople #homeschooling

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First Form Latin Review

Homeschool Latin Curriculum for Grades 5 & Up (Even Adults)

When Memoria Press offered their Form Latin courses for review, I thought Super Hero might want in since he’s been studying Latin for a while.  So I visited their website and took a look as I always do. After seeing samples, watching video lessons, and reading reviews, I took a much closer look!  —First Form Latin would make an excellent choice not just for him, but for myself, too.  I had started to learn Latin along with my son when he did, but my intention fell through the cracks somehow.  Now, First Form Latin was offering us the chance to learn Latin together once and for all.

What We Received

Memoria Press sent us First Form Latin Complete Set, an incredibly generous package to get started with Latin. The complete package, which includes video lessons in a 3-DVD set, retails for $125.  Memoria Press offers a similar package with streaming video lessons instead of the DVDs, should you prefer that option instead.

  First Form Latin Complete Set: Student Text & Workbook, Teacher Manual & Answer Keys, Quizzes & Tests, 3 DVDs with full video lessons, Pronunciation CD, and Flashcards

  What to Expect

Expect a big box with all the goodies: books, teacher guides & keys, workbooks, flashcards, CDs, and DVDs. First Form Latin includes everything you can possibly need to teach Latin with ease, even if you have no prior knowledge at all.  It’s impossible to overlook the fine quality of Memoria Press’ materials. The shiny, colorful book covers, with smooth, silky white pages in black and blue ink.  First impressions do matter I guess, and that alone makes you want to dive right in.

Course Structure

As with all Memoria Press courses, First Form Latin offers a very structured approach. The course is to last a full school year doing it every weekday. If there are co-ops and other activities begging for your time, it’s easy to adapt to 4, or even 3 days per week. I stopped trying to fit lessons into a fixed number of days long ago.  Inevitably something always happens that interfere with our schedule.  I like to keep it flexible:

Day 1: The Lesson. Either watch the lesson on the DVD or follow the Teacher Manual. Or watch the DVD, then just fill in with anything in the Teacher Manual the video might have missed.

Day 2:  Begin with recitations and grammar questions. Then complete one worksheet. Close with the flashcards.

Day 3+: The same as Day 2 until all of lesson’s worksheets are done. There are 4 to 6 worksheets per lesson.

Day 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 (depending on how many days the above takes us): Oral drills in textbook and quiz.

  Naturally, we play it by ear a bit. I don’t go through the entire list of grammar questions or flash all the cards every single time.  Nor do we play the recitations CD every day, mostly we recite quickly without the CD.  If this course is to succeed, it’s of vital importance we keep our load gentle and our pace comfortable.

Memoria Press suggests to follow the end of each lesson with optional history supplements. They suggest their own Lingua Angelica or Famous Men of Rome.  As secular homeschoolers, I’m not inclined to consider Lingua Angelica. But we did tag Famous Men of Rome to the end of lesson 1.  It’s relevant, and we enjoy it quite well. It’s definitely something I’d love to continue throwing in here and there, or perhaps more regularly.  We’ll see.

  Well Planned Out Lessons

The textbook and the DVD present very well planned out lessons.  Evidently Ms. Cheryl Lowe, the author, and her team devoted a great deal of time and effort putting it all together. I value the workbook exercises in particular, tackling topics from several angles.  They certainly help in understanding and deepening connections with Latin itself and with English.  Requiring a daily worksheet 4 to 6 days after each 20 minute lecture is such a wise approach.  —Slow and steady, that’s how the brain cements knowledge.  Pair those with the audio recitations, the questions, and the flashcards, and you’ll embrace pretty much all learning styles.

    The Video Lessons

The Instructor in the video lessons is just super. We both like Glen Moore a lot. He’s instructive and entertaining —a true edutainment experience! We enjoy his methodical lectures, and his jokes and relevant asides.  You can tell that he not only has experience teaching Latin, but he enjoys it as well. He’s a professional Latin teacher after all.

I do, however, take his Latin pronunciation with a grain of salt.  To be fair, he did clarify his recitations do not necessarily follow the correct pronunciation. The chants are to help memorization, so “feel free to stress the syllables any way you want.” Okay, that might be a valid reason, but I still would rather chant with the actual intonation lest I will get it wrong when I speak it.  —Not that I’m planning to have real conversations in Latin any time soon, or come to think of it, ever!  Still, it would be helpful to memorize correctly from the get-go.  Aside from his recitation disclaimer, I still believe he makes an error. He pronounces the third person, plural, of the future tense conjugation incorrectly.  The Latin ending is “bunt,” hence pronounced boont,  as in foot, not bunt as in, well, bunt.

Despite this mispronunciation point, both Super Hero and I, love watching Glen Moore’s lecture.  It takes about 15 to 20 minutes, which is the perfect length in our opinion.  Here’s a sample lesson so you can see for yourself the charming edutainer Glen Moore in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fqtqPFyVGc

  The next day (after the video lesson,) we begin with the grammar questions, as instructed in the Teacher Guide, then we do one worksheet, or two sometimes, depending on how quickly we finish.  Last, we rehearse our vocabulary with the flashcards. At the end of each lesson —that is after several days of working with worksheets, grammar questions, recitations, and flashcards, we practice the Oral Drill before we take our quiz. We haven’t yet taken a test. That’ll come at the end of the unit, or every 6 lessons.

  Our Thoughts about First Form Latin

Such structured methodology is working well with us for Latin.  As a matter of fact, it’s working wonderfully.  I’m liking it much more than I thought I would, which kinda surprises me a bit. The lessons have been gentle, yet rigorous, and crucial for a child —or any student: enjoyable!

We find ourselves looking forward to our Latin time. Super Hero who usually moans about having to write things down, has not uttered a single complaint. And there’s a fairly good deal of writing in the workbook!  On the contrary, he’s requested to do Latin first thing quite a few times already. Wow! That’s quite something, especially since we are both staunch nonfans of workbooks. Yes, I did buy a workbook just for myself 😉

    Unexpected Joys

Since Spanish is my native language, and Latin my “mother” tongue, or is it actually my “grandmother”? Anyway, I was saying, I find these exercises delightfully familiar.  I can’t help reminisce about the times of my own grammar school days long, long ago in Ecuador. I think of the times my teacher would make us recite and write down verb conjugations. And now, sitting with my son on my side doing something remarkably similar fills my heart with endearing nostalgia.

Regardless of my own reminiscences, studying Latin with Super Hero has been one of the best things I’ve done lately. I can’t tell you how much Super Hero’s loving it. He delights in filling the workbook together. Sometimes it’s like a game for him. He wants to beat me with faster, error-free performance.  Yet, other times, I think he likes being his mom’s equal: here we’re both “the students.”

  Would You Like to Learn More?

With such an endless supply of resources out there, reviews steer you toward those that might work for you and your family.  Many a time I’ve found homeschool curricula we’ve really loved thanks to reviews.  So, if you’re interested please check out Crew reviews for several Memoria Press products.

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Yesterday an eager Evan did his work as fast as he could, exactly how the the examples requested him to. He did his very best simply because he wants to watch tv 🤣 and this is how we homeschool! #honestandunbiasedblog #blog #homeschoolchicago #chicago #mpchicago #memoriapress #summer https://www.instagram.com/p/CQy1aY1J-0P/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Taking inspiration from the @memoriapress book of crafts to make these Curious George inspired yellow hats. I used my Cricut instead of drawing the hat but I made 2 different crafts due to that quick thinking. #honestandunbiasedblog #memoriapress #bookofcrafts #mpchicago #craftsforkids #crafts #homeschool #homeschoolchicago #christianhomeachool https://www.instagram.com/p/COf6z6BpGfX/?igshid=7ejdrl93b488

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Diorama of an important scene from The Cricket in Time Square. This was the first book my son worked on as part of the fourth grade home school curriculum from @memoriapress and we just want to be extra with our crafts around here. #honestandunbiasedblog #cricketintimessquare #memoriapress #mpchicago #homeschool https://www.instagram.com/p/CObCmCsJmTI/?igshid=cuyz9y9lre3s

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Ahhh I just love being home with them. There’s a heaviness with trying to figure out what we’re doing for school next year when I feel like homeschool is working so well. She’s in love with writing the letter A, like genuinely in love. These wins make me want to homeschool forever. Also, she wore a floral dress because we were planning to garden. What are you planning for next year? #honestandunbiasedblog #chicago #mpchicago #memoriapress #garden #children #theselittleones #936pennies https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXN93IpkA2/?igshid=5pucv9tbua9g

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Learning Rocks! See what I did there 😏#honestandunbiasedblog #homeschool #foundrocks #gifts #geology #archeology #chicago #hispanicfamily #enrichment #hispanichomeschool #mpchicago #memoriapress https://www.instagram.com/p/CK4DvFjpLUu/?igshid=13y56fmge5yas

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Today I finished up a (November) review of my experience with the homeschool curriculum from @memoriapress. Also, this child next to me did not know I was taking our picture. https://www.honestandunbiased.com/post/curriculum-review #honestandunbiasedblog #homeschool #homeschoolreview #mpchicago #mpreview #classical #memoriapressreview #curriculum #memoriapress #chicagofam #mexicanhomeschoolfamily https://www.instagram.com/p/CI1_WbypSUA/?igshid=1c2d7rnzbepoz

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Homeschool requires all of me. However, only half of me is the teacher. The babies were sitting with big bro today as he learned Latin from a dvd from @memoriapress and someone small is picking it up. No, not the girl, the boy running around in the background that you can’t see :). That same boy, is keen on #jello. They love to help in the kitchen and I’m happy to spend time with them while treating every moment as a teaching moment. Homeschool is a win today. #honestandunbiasedblog #chicago #memoriapress #mpchicago #mpmom #memoriapressmom #homeschool #elearning https://www.instagram.com/p/CIhHgX9pb_g/?igshid=1wqy8p97n8cjj

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When they are next to each other, they struggle. When they are apart, they pay attention and even help one another. They’re pretty funny. We had a great thanksgiving break but this morning we rolled right back into homeschool. The littles are really happy getting back to their routine. I added a little exercise time to begin their day and get the wiggles out after being off for the holiday week. For my eldest I am completely out of scheduled but he’s happy independently working and adding some art to his cursive work. All in all, id say it’s a good start to December. #honestandunbiasedblog #memoriapress #mpchicago #chicago #homeschoollife #urbanhomeschool #school https://www.instagram.com/p/CIQ6qX0pFUi/?igshid=nv7q5crsff0n

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Homeschool on my bedroom floor. Yes, there are Legos all around us. #honestandunbiasedblog #mpchicago #chicago #memoriapress https://www.instagram.com/p/CH0ftbWJDwW/?igshid=eqf261pek4tg

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It was charcuterie day here at the Diaz home. I can’t tell you enough, how easy it is to put this lunch together and how little time I spend setting it up. I gave the kids prunes today as their new food. They made faces at first but they’re gone now. I also bought some delectable cream puffs that we never buy. I found them on sale @target when we did our life skill day, Monday. Homeschool is this weird melded life for our family. We focus on some academia most days, and have a wish washy schedule but they’re learning. This week is catch up week for my eldest and I’m quizzing the babies daily, on all that we’ve learned thus far. Reading our school books will happen at night for now, going over the last few weeks of books intentionally. The babies don’t need it but I just want to have reading time and maybe some intentional bible time. We’ll see. I wrote on the blog at the end of October. It was a day I felt okay while being sick. I was so tired at the end of it that I couldn’t edit and it. I assume it reads messy but it was emotional and I have yet to make that time to edit. You know, procrastination is all about emotion 😏. Anyway, I just wanted to share my charcuterie platters. Blog: https://www.honestandunbiased.com/post/adding-and-subtracting #honestandunbiasedblog #memoriapress #chicago #classicaleducation #cheese #charcuterie #platteroftheday #cheapeats #homeschool #mpchicago #blogger #hispanichomeschoolers #procrastination #Christian https://www.instagram.com/p/CHd3jXypVk6/?igshid=x2iwre5epafu

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Back at it again. After 2 weeks off from school, we are going full force today working on week 3. A cool homeschool moment that we had this morning is the 15 minute break we took to run outside for the first snow of the year. Of course I used this as a learning tool to share about seasons and the kids said the pledge but still, it was fun. We might not have been able to take that break if we were on a computer with @chipubschools When we came in from the cold, I made us all some hot cocoa and we got ourselves ready for the day. We began with Alphabet Lesson/ Writing for the littles and will move right into our calendar, recitation, literature/poetry and then bible time. After, we’ll do lunch and free time for babies and start my eldest with Latin, and follow along our schedule provided by MP. We know now what works best for us is staggering our schedule between Junior K and 4th grade. We had to figure out what works best for us but while it’s been a learning curve, it’s definitely been really good to have a schedule laid out so we can pick up where we left off. How do you do your schedule? #honestandunbiased #cps #memoriapress #mpchicago #homeschool #curriculum #mphomeschool #elearning #classicalschool #latin https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0E4OGJHXO/?igshid=kq7ifczkq76v